To find family matching Xmas PJs extremely chavvy

[Gcol]

They are everywhere! It’s a social media boast thing.
Do people cook Xmas dinner in their PJs?
Kids will be looking back at photos of them thinking it was embarrassing to be dressed in the same PJs as their parents.

Is this a bait post?

Anyway, I bought DH and i matching PJs 3 years ago, every year we have a photo in the same ones, last year I was pregnant in the photo, this year we have baby DD with us in the same matching PJs as luckily Matalan are still selling the same style as we bought originally. Its a lovely tradition for us.

No need for the term 'chavvy'.

It’s a bit cheesy, but some people like that though. Chavvy? No.

We use them all year round and then they get passed down to the younger kids when the older ones have grown out of them. We only get rid when they get holes in/are too small for anyone

Your PP sounds as chavvy as chavvy gets

Well, I find it naff and not my thing at all, but who the heck am I to judge anyone?

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I didn't wear Christmas pyjamas but my dcs had them for Christmas eve they wore them till they grew out of them,like other pyjamas.

I don’t find it chavvy but I do find it unnerving and creepy. It makes me think of the type of cult that insists that they’re all one big family.

Growing up around actual chavs I have a very definition in what MN constitutes chavvy. Honestly the only people I see doing this are naice middle class families, mainly who use social media far too much.

Does anyone who does this not share photos and just do it for themselves? (I don’t mean not take photos just not share them)

This is such a lovely idea! We started something similar when my eldest was 1, we’ve got a log burner, so we put that on, all on the sofa with our feet on the foot stool, put the same Christmas movie on every year and I always get a quick photo basically of our feet (in thick socks) in front of the fire & Christmas decs. I don’t post it anywhere but it’s really nice to look back and see the change every year, and the new addition once DC2 was born.

I’m thinking Christmas Socks this year ( never done the matching PJ)

It really rather depends on the PJ’s provenance, darling!
Supermarket purchases (particularly the over-the-top Xmas ones) - possibly
Supermarket tasteful ones - not
Harrods Noel Coward-style silk - definitely not!

You sound very judgy and rude @Gcol . YANBU to not like people wearing matching pyjamas at Christmas, but calling them chavvy is just such a nasty thing to say. And no, of course the children aren't going to grow up and look back and feel embarrassed at the matching pyjamas pics from Christmases past!. What a ludicrous thing to say!

DH and I don't have them by the way, but we may get them now!

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I'm not on social media and I'm also definitely not middle class but me, my mum and son often wear matching pyjamas 😂

We wear ours all year round 😂

I mean they make me cringe a bit but each to their own 🤷‍♂️

Perhaps a bigger problem is why it eats you up enough that you'd think to start this thread?

Is Christmas generally not a great time for you?

I'm pretty certain that you don't have to wear them.

Personally I find people judging others to be quite chavvy. I do recognise the irony in this comment

Oh we’ve done it and the kids love it. I wear mine all winter so do the kids. Can’t see the harm. I love that 4 generations get together, laugh have fun, play games, enjoy each others company. I don’t post on social media so it’s just super chavy inside my massive private home OP.

Not sure it’s council houses and violent (chav) people who do this. It’s more people who like to post on social media, influencers etc. I can’t see anything wrong with it to be honest.

I prefer it to the wankery of Halloween.

It’s not something I buy into but I am neutral about it. Calling it chavvy though says more about you than the people who buy them though.

Now I grew up with new PJs for Christmas Eve, because Christmas morning photos are taken in pjs opening gifts, so parents didn’t want us in faded ones with holes in and half way up our legs.

we did this for similar reasons and most years didn’t buy the kids the same ones, but a couple of years have got matching ones for the dcs, and one year got everyone matching. Dd has asked if we can all be matching this year so I might if the adult ones look like something I’d use through winter. (Try to get something that’s just tartan not Christmas themed then they just are worn all winter.)

Well arent you a bundle of fun! Unclench and enjoy the season.

Oh that "C" word again.
Can people please stop using it.
It's not big and it's not clever.
Just grow up.

I wouldn't say chavvy, more naff. Very weird to still be wearing them for dinner, though. I've never heard of that.